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Burning Debian ISO's Right Now

I downloaded them last night.Have 3 ISO to burn.So, anything I should know before I attempt to install?This will be my first Debian install,well besides Libranet.Since I'm a newbie will this be difficult for me?

Re: Burning Debian ISO's Right Now

ahhh, welcome to the wonderful world of apt-get. Beats the shiznit out of rpm's! (sorry JimH) Only hint I have for your install is select the VERY bare minimum and then install a custom system by using apt-get. This is truly the only way to go, it makes everything so much easier!

Aragorn

If you give a man a fire he'll be warm, if you light the man on fire he'll be warm for life.

Re: Burning Debian ISO's Right Now

Originally Posted by Aragorn

ahhh, welcome to the wonderful world of apt-get. Beats the shiznit out of rpm's! (sorry JimH) Only hint I have for your install is select the VERY bare minimum and then install a custom system by using apt-get. This is truly the only way to go, it makes everything so much easier!

Aragorn

Not sure about apt-get, cuz I've only seen screenies of it. But rpm's have urmpi. On a mandrake system, creating sources/downloading/dependency checking/installing are done with urpmi. addmedia and urpmi packagename.

Does apt-get do something else other than the forementioned capabilites of urpmi? Just wondering.

I downloaded them last night.Have 3 ISO to burn.So, anything I should know before I attempt to install?This will be my first Debian install,well besides Libranet.Since I'm a newbie will this be difficult for me?

Debian install is very simple and straight forward.
I don't know why everyone is talking about apt-get to a newbie.

Burning the cd, or cds and then during the installation, you should configure the partitions yourself : debian installation partitions configuration is very flexible, only take care not to look for extended partition (once you've done 3 primary parts) the term is logical (while other systems will allow to create the 4th as Extended in which you'll create your logical parts)

You can have how many logical parts you want in the space left outside the 3 primary parts, you can mount one as /data (editing the mount point yourself, as well as the label, and its attributes: user_xattr )
and later make that part shared by all others systems installed already or in the future + your network.

Once installed and rebooted (with cd out of cd-rom) you can check your /boot/grub/menu.lst and keep a copy of it for adding to it an entry to multi-boot later every newly installed systems, asa you install them, so your debian menu is the menu multi-booting all the systems.

when you create your partitions,
you put /boot on a primary part and bootable, from the 1st cylinder with a size between 80MB doesn't need to be > 600 MB. ( only if you install linux next to Windows, you need to install the grub in the MBR) I think you are given the option once partitions are done.

I could have done them smaller, just I don't know how many packages I'll install in the future, I don't want to be running out of space. I still have enough space for another 2 linux on the drive. xp is now on 9GB.
so you see you don't need a lot of space disk for debian.

And as a newbie myself, I update with the GUI:
with the synaptic package manager, from the Applications submenu.
I think that once installed, the new user needs to have a look around the system, there is plenty to do before using apt-get.

once insalled take a look at your booting menu:
read the menu.lst file
more /boot/grub/menu.lst or cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

** the shared is the partitions used as data, mounted during partitioning.
you won't find this one in your system, all other files and dir above will be in your system.

take a look at your /dev to see all the drives,

also read your /etc/fstab
more /etc/fstab and press q to leave and come back to the prompt
or
cat /etc/fstab
and so on......
learn how to navigate in your file system using the terminal and most of all, Enjoy yourself.